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> Modern SaaS applications are multi-tenant. This is true in a sense “most modern SaaS apps have at least two unrelated users or user groups” (forgive me pleas

> Modern SaaS applications are multi-tenant. This is true in a sense “most modern SaaS apps have at least two unrelated users or user groups” (forgive me please if I’m wrong here, but that’s how I loosely understand “multi-tenant”), but it’s not exactly clear why this is important. I strongly suspect that the majority of modern SaaSes don’t do any database-level tenant isolation or per-tenant backups. The smaller the company the less it’s likely. Row-level security is a very rare sight to behold, even in regulated areas (certifications like HIPAA compliance don’t really require this). The best they do if they’re really global (I’m sure most are only global in “we accept users from anywhere”, but not so much under the hood - even though cloudy sales pitches love to paint a different picture, most SaaSes I’ve seen were one or two-region deployments) is try to move/shard data closer to the the user’s region. I think one concrete example (as simple as possible) would help a lot.

maweaver 3y ago
I think it makes more sense if you think of it in terms of "B2B" SaaS applications. Think selling a subscription to a medium-sized company, all in one geographical location, where data is shared between all users of that organization, and very carefully not shared outside of that group. For a more concrete example, think Salesforce. I'm not sure that I would generalize that to all modern SaaS applications though.
infra_dev 3y ago
Nile CEO here. Here are a few use cases that can help you. We believe SaaS is 95% of new companies today and it is very broadly applicable. Happy to chat further if interested 1. GitHub helps a group of developers manage and deploy their code. Each Github organization is a tenant, and the developers within those organizations are users. 2. Salesforce or Hubspot helps sales reps manage their leads. Each company is a tenant, and the users are the sales reps. 3. Ring is a home security company that provides alarm services to different households. Each household is a tenant, and people living in a house using their service are users. 4. Toast is a platform to help build software for restaurants. The restaurants are tenants, and the employees of the restaurants are the users.
- yencabulator 3y ago
  > 1. GitHub helps a group of developers manage and deploy their code. Each Github organization is a tenant, and the developers within those organizations are users. Nope, Github users exist outside of organizations in a global namespace, and can be invited to be members of multiple organizations.
  - infra_dev 3y ago
    Yes, that is correct. In Nile, users are shared tables. They can belong to multiple tenants. In the case of the Github example, the organization is a tenant and users will be a shared table. Nile provides this out of the box. Will fix the usecase example to be more clear.

maweaver 3y ago

I think it makes more sense if you think of it in terms of "B2B" SaaS applications. Think selling a subscription to a medium-sized company, all in one geographical location, where data is shared between all users of that organization, and very carefully not shared outside of that group. For a more concrete example, think Salesforce. I'm not sure that I would generalize that to all modern SaaS applications though.

infra_dev 3y ago

Nile CEO here. Here are a few use cases that can help you. We believe SaaS is 95% of new companies today and it is very broadly applicable. Happy to chat further if interested 1. GitHub helps a group of developers manage and deploy their code. Each Github organization is a tenant, and the developers within those organizations are users. 2. Salesforce or Hubspot helps sales reps manage their leads. Each company is a tenant, and the users are the sales reps. 3. Ring is a home security company that provides alarm services to different households. Each household is a tenant, and people living in a house using their service are users. 4. Toast is a platform to help build software for restaurants. The restaurants are tenants, and the employees of the restaurants are the users.

yencabulator 3y ago
> 1. GitHub helps a group of developers manage and deploy their code. Each Github organization is a tenant, and the developers within those organizations are users. Nope, Github users exist outside of organizations in a global namespace, and can be invited to be members of multiple organizations.
- infra_dev 3y ago
  Yes, that is correct. In Nile, users are shared tables. They can belong to multiple tenants. In the case of the Github example, the organization is a tenant and users will be a shared table. Nile provides this out of the box. Will fix the usecase example to be more clear.